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Primary Quilt Squares Why do people make quilts? How can a quilt tell the history of a family? Can a quilt be art? What is a pattern? The Primaries discussed these questions and viewed pictures of quilts. In Science class, the kids are learning about properties and attributes. How do you observe things? How do you use your 5 senses to learn more? You can use your eyes to see and your fingers to feel these quilts. You can describe … Read more…
These have been in our art room since I’ve arrived 5 years ago and we really don’t know what they are exactly for. My guess is that they are used to hold clay beads while being fired in the kiln? What do you think???
These lovely Pop Art portraits were created by our 2nd graders this week. We read a book about Andy Warhol and watched a video about Pop Art. We looked at and discussed Andy’s use of bright colors, repetition and popular subject matter. The artwork we focused on was his self portrait. To prepare, cut a 9×12″ piece of paper into 4 pieces. You will need one quarter piece for each child. The kids looked in a mirror to draw … Read more…
kindergarten Primary color Mondrian design We did this project last week to introduce the primary colors-red, blue and yellow to the kindergartners. We looked at the artwork of Piet Mondrian and discussed his use of color– primary colors + neutral black and white. We described the lines and shapes. The kids then made their own Mondrian-inspired artwork using construction paper shapes. Artwork by Piet Mondrian
Farmers’ Market Collage
OH, painting tiles! How I love them!
At the very end of last year, my third grade students cut apart plastic water bottles to make these flowers. I started them off by cutting the bottom of the bottle off, then they continued with scissors. You can round off the edges to make the petals look more realistic. Then, these were painted with acrylic paint. I hot glued these down to a large white piece of foam board. Some kindergarten students also made little round lumps of model … Read more…
What is a focal point? How do artists arrange their composition? What is emphasis? How have words and letters been used in art? These are some of the questions the Primaries explored in their first unit. We looked at the art of Stuart Davis by viewing a slideshow. The Primaries created a work of art using letters and numbers. They choose one letter or number to use as the focal point and then surrounded it with other letters and … Read more…
What is art? What materials can be used to create art? How do we properly use art materials? These are the questions that the Nest (grade K) discussed at the beginning of the school year. They also learned about the most very basic mark in art… the DOT. They looked at a slideshow of artworks that use dots. The class read the book: The Dot.Then, to make their artwork the Nest students cut out large dots (circles) and glued them … Read more…
Check out this arts map. “Connecting the arts, artists and the community.” How cool!!! Here is one of my clay pots. I made it in college but I have it and still love it.
I’m trying to find a way to use up all the photos I take. Here is a mixed media collage using a flower photo I took.
I started out the year with the Primary students (1st grade) drawing small, quick self portraits. One kid drew himself as a pirate! lol. The 4/5s (4th/5th graders mixed) looked at gears and drew them from observation. I also had pictures of gears and machinery for them to look at. I showed them basic steps to add shading and value. After they had drawn 3+ gears, I told them that we would be turning them into inventions. We had things … Read more…
